Village Builder

Village Builder
Sound Designer | 2021

Client: Games for Entertainment and Learning (GEL) Lab

Role: Sound Designer

Village Builder is a real-time strategy, village construction management game for school children in Sub-Saharan Africa. The game features prosocial objectives with cognitive reasoning and planning goals. The game serves as an alternative to traditional computerized cognitive rehabilitation therapy (CCRT). It is being used with HIV inflected children in Malawi and Uganda and is currently in a clinical research trial to gauge effectiveness. The game is part of a suite of cognitive training games developed by the Games for Entertainment and Learning (GEL) Lab at Michigan State University and supported by a grant from the National Institute of Health.